I overheard a discussion regarding Dundee Football Club legend Bobby Seith.
Bobby, of course, was part of the legendary Dens Park side which won the Scottish Championship in season 1961-62, and which reached the semi-finals of the European Cup a year later.
One of the guys in the friendly argument was adamant that Seith was manager of Rangers at one time.
The other male was equally very sure that he was not, and started hauling out Wikipedia stats from his phone.
But his friend was unmoved, and stuck to his assertion that Seith was boss of the Ibrox outfit for a short spell.
I can certainly remember the former Dark Blues right-half being at Ibrox in a coaching capacity but have found nothing to link him with the managerial chair at the top of the fabled marble staircase.
He was on the Dens Park coaching staff in 1965 after giving up the playing side and was lured that year to Ibrox by Rangers manager Scot Symon.
He resigned when Symon was sacked, so didn’t seem to have taken charge of the team even in an interim capacity.
Seith became a manager in his own right soon after when Preston North End appointed him team boss.
After two seasons at Deepdale from 1968-70, he returned to Scotland to manage Hearts, spending four years in the Tynecastle hot seat.
Before he joined Dundee as a player, Seith was with Burnley and played in most of their games when they won the English top division title in 1959-60.
I say ‘most’ as he fell out of favour with Clarets boss Harry Potts around March of that season and wasn’t given another starting place that term.
Dundee manager Bob Shankley swooped to sign him for £7,500.
Another wee twist was that he wasn’t, for some reason, given a champions medal at the time.
He had to wait until 1999 when the Turf Moor side rectified matters and invited him down to the stadium to publicly present him with the medal.
He still lives in Broughty Ferry after a successful ‘apres-football’ career as a chiropodist.
Staying with a Rangers theme, as I’ve said before, I’m often asked to solve pub debates.
This was another one which I was able to answer immediately, without enlisting the assistance of the archives department.
I’d no sooner walked into the Trades Bar public-house in central Dundee for a pre-concert sarsaparilla when Brian Marshall asked: “Who was the Hamilton Accies player who broke his leg against Rangers at Ibrox in the 1980s?
“Also, please confirm that Accies put Rangers out of the Scottish Cup in that game.”
I answered Bobby Barr.
He broke his leg in a league game at Ibrox not long into Graeme Souness’ reign at Ibrox, with the home side recording a 2-0 win on January 17, 1987.
Accies’ famous 1-0 Scottish Cup win was in a different game and was actually just a fortnight later.
When Barr recovered from that injury, he played only a couple of reserve matches before breaking the same leg again.
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